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Following Donald Trump’s failure to gather support for his healthcare plan, US stocks suffered their worst weekly performance since the November election. The S&P 500 sold off as it became patently clear that the alternative to Barack Obama’s Affordable Care…

Tax barrister and campaigner Jolyon Maugham QC has delivered a ‘letter before action’ to Uber’s London headquarters as a formal precursor to launching legal proceedings in the High Court next month. Mr Maugham is director of the Good Law Project,…

Chadbourne & Parke and Norton Rose Fulbright announced last Tuesday that they will combine in the second quarter of 2017. The firm will remain known as Norton Rose Fulbright, creating a combined revenue of just under $2 billion, with more…

The Co-operative Bank, which is only 20 per cent owned by the Co-operative Group, announced on Monday that it was putting itself up for sale after warning that its capital reserves were falling below the level required by regulation. The…

US investors suffered their worst day in more than three months following President Donald Trump’s administrative ban on immigrants. Trump signed an executive order which bars citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries — Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen…

Barclays has agreed to sell its French retail banking division to private equity firm AnaCap Financial Partners. The deal, for an undisclosed sum, will include the sale by the UK bank of 74 retail branches, a life insurance business, and…

The Swiss-headquartered commodity trading and mining company, Glencore, and the Qatari Investment Authority (QIA) recently sought legal advice as they approached Rosneft with a view to taking a €10.5 billion stake in the Russian oil giant. The offer would see…

Speaking in Indiana, the first of several stops on his victory lap across the US, President-elect Donald Trump warned companies of ‘consequences’ if they were to withdraw their operations from the US. At the rally, he took credit for saving 1,000…

Barclays has set aside another £600 million to pay compensation to customers for the mis-selling of payment protection insurance (PPI). The extra cash, announced as the bank reported a 10% fall in its profits over the last nine months, brings…

A trio of opinion polls indicating growing support for a Brexit vote in the 23 June referendum has prompted a slide in stock markets across Europe as investors react to the uncertainty. The interest rate on ten-year Bunds issued by…

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